hot damn! excl.
(US) a general excl., usu. implying pleasure rather than fury.
![]() | Wildcat 80: ‘Hot damn!’ he exclaimed. | |
![]() | (con. late 1920s) Little Ham III i : Well, hot-damn! | |
![]() | Buckaroo’s Code (1948) 15: Hod [sic] dang it, Cotton, why didn’t we eat at Charlies? | |
![]() | (con. 1943–5) To Hell and Back (1950) 119: ‘This woman’s a snowball [...] She’s fulla dope.’ ‘Hod damn [...] who’da thought it?’. | |
![]() | ‘Ball of the Freaks’ in Life (1976) 110: ‘Hot damn!’ cried the faggots as they dig the maggots / Crawling out of that bitch’s hips. | et al.|
![]() | Chosen Few (1966) 16: ‘Hot dammit!’ he cursed, rubbing his knee. | |
![]() | Howard Street 68: ‘Hot damn!’ Brother shouted joyously. | |
![]() | Listening to America 26: ‘Hot dang,’ someone says. | |
![]() | Tales of the City (1984) 19: Hot damn. This place is Pickup City tonight. | |
![]() | Macho Sluts 44: Did that really happen? Hot damn! And I think I’m wicked and perverse. | |
![]() | It Was An Accident 189: Hot damn! Now we got to think up some other scheme. | |
![]() | Robbers (2001) 23: Hot damn [...] Look out Houston, here we come. |